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Stop teasing the guy. Everyone knows it ends with Picard turning on a light, and viewers see Picard in bed, saying, "Honey, you won't believe the dream I just had." to his wife Emily played by Suzanne Pleshette.

This is Lieutenant Commander Data, attempting to communicate with you through a sub-space channel modulating the reality you are currently perceiving through the 21st century website "Slashdot". An unknown being has locked us out of the holodeck where you are being held and filmed as part of Season 7. Whatever you do, do not initiate the.torrent from TPB. Doing so may trigger a paradox singularity destroying the fabric of space-time. After all, you wouldn't steal a car...

This is Spock in the Alternate Universe. I became aware of the sub-space channel and my attempt to patch into it was met with success. I agree with Lt. Cmdr. Data; his reasoning is sound and his conclusion logical. However, the 'magnetic link' available at the same location requires no interaction with the.torrent file. I believe you are now in Earth Year 2012, the last episode aired May 23, 1994 which would put you at an estimated temporal distance of 17 years, 360 days and 2 hours, putting you wel

You jest, but I still haven't seen the last season of Voyager. The station that carried it changed networks right before the last season, and it wasn't available here at all. I've looked for it on the shelves of stores, but never saw anything past season 2.

I'm a neurosurgeon. A coworker called me up last night asking if I knew a different way for him to download a movie since it was down. I can guarantee he's much, much smarter than you. He just doesn't know computers. Really, why should anyone? That's why we pay 8 bucks an hour to people, so we can concentrate on more important things.

Really, why should anyone? That's why we pay 8 bucks an hour to people, so we can concentrate on more important things.

The same reason you should have a basic understanding of how your vehicle works and be able to at least change the oil and spark plugs when need be. Sure you could go pay some grease monkey to do it all for you, but then you're being exploited due to sheer laziness. If your comfortable existence depends upon something, such as vehicles or communications networks, then you should try to be as self sufficient as possible in its use. As a doctor, I'm sure you expect your patients to have a basic understanding of how their bodies work and how to properly maintain them. Wait, you'd rather they didn't. Why else would they come to you, right? It sure would be hard for you to get out from all of that student loan debt if you didn't have misinformed patients to scam and exploit.*

A goodly amount of modern cars feature aluminum heads and utterly buried spark plugs. Removing them without damage and (far more probable) cross-threading or stripping out the threads during installation isn't worth me trying (especially now that most spark plugs last at least 30k if not 50k).

I'm reminded of that crack about Linux being worth spending time on, if your time has no value. At least if you eff up your Linux install, you won't be forced to walk everywhere.

The same reason you should have a basic understanding of how your vehicle works and be able to at least change the oil and spark plugs when need be.

I have a basic understanding of how my car works, and use to maintain my own cars all the time. Hell, I've changed clutches. When I had that damned Mustang I spent more time under the hood than behind the wheel (Fix Or Repai Daily). Now? It took a trained mechanic 45 minutes to change my battery, since he had to remove the wheel, fender, and wheel well to get to

Kids aren't getting enough attention doing bot/channel war ddosing on IRC anymore so they turn them on high profile websites for whatever pretend outrage they can conjur up in their idiotic little brains.

I still don't think it was a DDoS. First, all the well known mirrors still worked, rather than being targeted as well. Second, the traffic for the pirate bay, at least for my computer, disappeared whenever it entered AT&T's part of the network (hop 5) instead of transversing it. And third, many other people report the same thing with different big pipes. All that suggests to me is bad routing information.

TPB doesn't work like a traditional website. It's more like a darknet site made accessible through a number of public portals. It seems like the "portal" for the US and some surrounding areas was taken down, it was available in other areas and the proxies still worked.

FUD? Maybe. Quite possibly. Easy enough to pull off with backdoors into almost everything, provided you have access to those backdoors. Guess who has the most access to them?

That being said, and I made this realization long ago, is that by the very nature of "Anonymous" one must assume that at any time the entire situation could be a scam and that possibility never goes away. Since no one can be absolutely sure who, exactly, Anonymous is, one must assume it can be anybody.

Therefore, whenever I see the word anonymous used in the sense that we are now speaking, I automatically replace the word with "somebody". For example, let's use this approach on the very article we discuss.

"The Pirate Bay Returns, Somebody Hater Takes Credit For DDoS"

See how that changes things? The headline now leaves it to the reader to decide who the threat is, as opposed to whoever wrote headline...or concocted the event the headline discusses.

Taking this approach--replacing the word anonymous with the word somebody--removes any control of perception that the source of such misinformation might be trying to wield, effectively defeating the effort.

An excellent example was when the FBI was running and controlling LulzSec for all those months and launching attacks in the name of 'Anonymous'. For all those months were those FBI agents in control of those attacks members of 'Anonymous' or not. They acted anonymously and the carried out those attacks in the names of 'Anonymous' so by definition they were members of 'Anonymous', now should they arrest themselves, well if any of those attacks that they orchestrated were outside the United States, them the

I'm sure the FBI will leave no stone unturned and is doing a complete investigation to see if the person responsible is a US citizen or lives in a country with an extradition agreement. They will find this villain and put him behind bars, right? Because of course they don't want it to look like they only investigate cases where a large corporation with lots of bribe money is involved.

As tempting as it might be to point the finger at the FBI for not investigating the attack based on some sort of bias against hackers, I think the more relevant reason would be the fact that the Pirate Bay isn't an American company. A more pointed view on this would be if www.2600.com was DDoS'd whether or not the FBI would investigate that.